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2022 Season Summary Trek Segafredo made a statement of intent in 2022 by signing the newly crowned World Champion Elisa Balsamo. The Italian delivered in...

Elisa Longo Borghini has won the Tre Valli Varesine for women. The 30-year-old Trek-Segafredo rider, who also won the Giro dell'Emilia last Saturday, broke...

The women's Giro dell'Emilia is starting to get itself a solid list of winners in its relatively short lifetime. In the previous 8 editions, it has been won almost exclusively by the best puncheurs in the women's peloton. The course is kinda like Fleche Wallonne in that it finishes at the top of a very steep, solid climb. But it also takes place in Italy at the start of the Autumn and has absolutely no proceeding climbs to worry about.

The Women's World Championships road race had been dominated by Dutch riders in recent years, with 4 in a row between 2017 and 2021. Elisa Balsamo broke that run last year in Flanders by being able to outsprint Marianne Vos to the line. Such is the Dutch dominance in women's cycling

Annemiek van Vleuten secured the win at the Ceratizit Challenge today after not losing any time, with Elisa Balsamo winning the final stage. In...

Aussie Grace Brown won the 3rd stage of the 2022 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta. The FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope rider beat Elise Chabbey in a head-to-head...

The Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta has had quite a developmental history. Originally a one-day race in Madrid that saw sprinters take victories, it has slowly grown into the 5-day race that it is this year. A team time trial was added to the sprint stage in 2018

Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes has won her first European Women's Cycling Championship in today's race in Munich. She finished around half a wheel ahead...

Women's European Championships Road Race History The European Championships is one that the Dutch national team have a strong hold over. They've won 5 of...

Stage 6 of this year's Tour de France Femmes looks like one for the sprinters but again a late climb will make them work...